[TowerTalk] Site Grounding

[Tony King - W4ZT]

At 12:38 PM 10/21/2003, Jim Lux wrote:
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>By the way, I'm not sure what you really want here is a brazed 
>copper/copper joint.  Brazing is usually used to refer to a joint using 
>brass or copper to join, e.g. steel, making use of the fact that the 
>melting point of the brazing metal is lower than that of the materials 
>being joined (otherwise it would be called "welding", no?)

You're absolutely right Jim. Many times it's called braze welding. 
Unfortunately when you tell someone they will "weld" something they're not 
going to look any farther because they think of sparks, arcs and something 
they can't do. Fortunately you can braze even copper to copper with simple 
materials available at the local Home Depot.

>Using brass or copper to join copper would require getting the bond metal 
>almost as hot as the MP of the metal being joined.  Why not just use 
>thermite (exothermic welding) and make it a real copper/copper/copper 
>bond, in that case?

And that's an excellent choice if it's available :)

73,
Tony W4ZT